Classic Comments on the Quote

[aerie]

"What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. "
— Proverb

montyb on 2012-05-16 23:47:02
At least, sooner or later, it gets done.

maradnu on 2013-10-29 10:33:42
The fool does not always do the wise thing - even in the end

darkyr on 2016-06-13 03:48:39
The wise do not always do the wise thing, even in the beginning.

tabbyclaw on 2016-11-07 15:01:00
Given the number of quotes on this site that are about how the only real fools are people who give up, we can take this to mean that wise people never actually start anything.

[aerie]

"When I'm loved I'm the universe, If I'm not I'm merely a dying star."
— Angela Keith

Quizzical on 2014-03-14 07:57:59
Burial to follow in the Cosmic Cemetery.

LLapp on 2015-03-26 09:53:17
Wow, so dramatic -- coulda come from Lord Byron -- by which I mean gag me with a spoon.

intelligencia on 2016-07-18 08:25:21
Wow. Sounds like someone cares a little to much about what other people think.

[aerie]

"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?"
— Unattributed

montyb on 2013-03-10 01:25:47
Braille.

[oddcouple]

"A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza. "
— Samuel Johnson

countessofmontecrypto on 2011-02-03 23:31:28
Very unseemly for a judge to chuck farthing.

ZeebaNeighba on 2012-06-30 19:51:41
Chuck Farthing is a friend of mine

Barnabas on 2012-09-06 19:29:29
What if he likes doing just one of those things? I kind of like chucking farthing in the piazza, myself.

Allen on 2013-09-05 07:08:39
...And you're no Chuck Farthing!

wvwoman on 2014-11-04 11:38:09
i play at cryptos for my own amusement!

mikehallbackhoe on 2015-01-03 14:34:29
you can chuck farthing, just don't get in the piazza

montyb on 2015-05-17 00:54:13
Nobody better chuck farthing in my pizza.

Mobo on 2015-10-02 09:32:11
Please stop this pun ishment!

SwampySox on 2015-10-07 13:32:49
Sad a judge should have to pay Chuck a farthing to geld his pigs....Happy lucky pigs!!! Sad Bob Barker.

[LLapp]

"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once." — William Faulkner

montyb on 2012-07-31 02:19:27
You just can't buy loyalty like that.

[LLapp]

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs." — Christopher Hampton

montyb on 2013-02-20 01:13:30
Though I've never heard any lampposts complain.

kb83 on 2014-10-30 04:00:39
Yes, hopefully the writer is more articulate than a lamppost.

[abra]

"To your friends, you're like a trash bag. They'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out."
— Adam R. Gwizdala


Queethebean on 2012-05-22 19:24:21
That's my friend, Adam R. Gwizdala. Well, he used to be my friend, but, you know how that goes . . .

[LLapp]

I've seen many parodies of this famous quote, but darkyr takes it to a new level.

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." — H. G. Wells

maradnu on 2010-07-05 19:20:41
Everybody's an editor, everybody's a critic.

bansaisequoia on 2012-10-05 19:23:15
If someone roofies my beer, they've altered my draft.

darkyr on 2016-07-13 06:30:18
In my draft, the part of the editor is played by the late HG Wells. In one scene, his zombified hand reaches out from his grave, red pen in hand, and starts marking up the epitaph on his own headstone.

[oddcouple]

"It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. " -George Eliot

maradnu on 2010-02-14 21:26:58
True of so many of us.

kjmcaj on 2013-05-05 17:05:18
136 seconds.

puzzler86 on 2014-04-14 00:49:16
61 seconds

LLapp on 2015-03-10 19:53:24
Oh . . . . "orgaNIsm" -- I almost reached for my smelling salts.

skeeter on 2015-03-13 01:27:36
I'm not touching THAT one, LLapp!

kb83 on 2015-07-23 07:17:33
It takes an organism to ....

LLapp on 2016-09-04 10:48:46
kb83, if you come back, please tell me the rest. I can't figure it out.

[LLapp]

"I have died so little today, friend, forgive me." — Thomas Lux

BeeAre on 2012-09-23 14:10:56
you should have tried harder